English Block step Tiered excavation terraces step down

Tiered excavation terraces step down through the dolerite walls of Hornsby Quarry

when CSR Construction Materials ended nearly a century of dolerite extraction on the site

Dust coats the cross-bracing and metalwork throughout

Chemical Storage at Kaga

The building stood between closure and demolition

English Block step Tiered excavation terraces step downA derelict classroom inside the English Block at Macquarie Boys Technology High School, Rydalmere. Desks and chairs sit under years of accumulated dust, textbooks and papers left where students last put them when the school closed in 2009. Part of the Macquarie Boys Technology High series.